And Pilate gave them Petronius the centurion with soldiers to guard the tomb. http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/gospelpeter.html Obviously the stone before the tomb was not sufficient. I point out this "coincidence" to raise a rethorical question: If the name of a Roman is already introduc...

Can Pilate be read in Revelation? What derives the my attention is that just in the only passage in Revelation where the Lamb is not identified stricto sensu with the Christ, "Satan" is defeated by the "blood of the Lamb": Revelation 12: Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought ag...

Now the question that has to be faced is the following: what caused this dualism between Jesus and Christ ? It came from the collision between early Christian Gnostics and the followers of the author of the book of Revelation. The book of Revelation assumes that Jesus was the Jewish Messiah, the Ser...

The dualism between the two Messiahs (one from the Good God and the other from the demiurge) is fully in action insofar the davidic Messiah suffers on the cross while the spiritual Christ remains impassible in heaven. The rending of the veil in the temple allegorizes the wrath of the demiurge, again...

In my view, it is a fact that Cerinthus was the author of proto-Mark. 35 While Jesus was teaching in the temple courts, he asked, “Why do the teachers of the law say that the Messiah is the son of David? 36 David himself, speaking by the Holy Spirit , declared: “‘The Lord said to my Lord: “Sit at my...

The evidence of the intrinsic anti-Jewish nature of the separationist Christology (behind proto-Mark) is found in the same reaction raised by it: our current Gospel of Mark. Our Mark (I mean: the editor of proto-Mark) insists that Jesus “is the Christ”. But it is an apology for the identity Jesus=Ch...

Doudna writes (in the citation above): But such talk of a few good ones (remnant) and in the end everyone will be saved (pie in the sky) of a doomed people in the present age is rhetoric. Agrippa II and Josephus, who were with Titus, similarly no doubt wept at the divine justice of Roman wrath on t...

Stephen was stoned out of the city, too. Assume for a moment that the Golghota, as a hill outside a city, was the ideal place for lapidation. Was the crucifixion on Golghota an implicit overlap/eclipse of a previous death of Jesus (via lapidation) by a new death of Jesus (via crucifixion)? According...

Thanks Irish1975 and Ben for this exchange of different views about Rom. 9-11. It may be interesting the reading of Doudna's view about the same passages: (2) I know that is the common understanding but once the argument that a post-70 1 Thes 2 means interpolation is gone, I do not see a significant...